Overland Route Through British North America; or, The Shortest and Speediest Road to the East Author: Waddington, Alfred Place Published: London Publisher: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer Date Published: 1868 Description: 48 pp. Large folding map, colored, linen-backed. (8vo) 24.1x13.5 cm (9½x5¼"), original wrappers laid down on stiff cardboard. First Edition. Waddington arrived from England to British Columbia during the gold rush of 1858. He became a merchant in Victoria, sat in the House of Assembly, and went on to become the leading advocate in British Columbia for the construction of a transcontinental railway (via the Yellow Head Pass), a proposal that found support in London and New York, but was rejected in Ottawa by John A. Macdonald as being premature, and with potentially too much backing by American financiers. In his pamphlet, Waddington addresses the political, commercial and geographic benefits, as well as potential challenges, and objections, not the least of which was the expense. He died in 1872 before he could secure a railway charter from the Canadian government, although his vision for both a Canadian transcontinental railway, and a route to the Pacific through the Yellow Head Pass were later vindicated. The map (measuring 26" x 11.5") traces the "projected overland railroad through British North America", a combination of railway, water, and overland trails. The railway line would have commenced at Arnprior, Ontario; the water routes would have started out at Collingwood, Ontario. A location at Bute Inlet (now called Waddington Harbour) would have been the terminus, with connections to Victoria and the Orient. Provenance: C.C. Mackenzie (name on front wrapper and head of preface) MacKenzie was British Columbia's Superintendent of Education in the 1880s. Lowther 318, Peel 3: 489. Condition: Wrappers soiled; uneven toning, ownership marks, notes in pen and pencil in margins sometimes extending into text on few pages; very good. Item#: 365372 Headline: Overland through British North America 1868
Overland Route Through British North America; or, The Shortest and Speediest Road to the East Author: Waddington, Alfred Place Published: London Publisher: Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer Date Published: 1868 Description: 48 pp. Large folding map, colored, linen-backed. (8vo) 24.1x13.5 cm (9½x5¼"), original wrappers laid down on stiff cardboard. First Edition. Waddington arrived from England to British Columbia during the gold rush of 1858. He became a merchant in Victoria, sat in the House of Assembly, and went on to become the leading advocate in British Columbia for the construction of a transcontinental railway (via the Yellow Head Pass), a proposal that found support in London and New York, but was rejected in Ottawa by John A. Macdonald as being premature, and with potentially too much backing by American financiers. In his pamphlet, Waddington addresses the political, commercial and geographic benefits, as well as potential challenges, and objections, not the least of which was the expense. He died in 1872 before he could secure a railway charter from the Canadian government, although his vision for both a Canadian transcontinental railway, and a route to the Pacific through the Yellow Head Pass were later vindicated. The map (measuring 26" x 11.5") traces the "projected overland railroad through British North America", a combination of railway, water, and overland trails. The railway line would have commenced at Arnprior, Ontario; the water routes would have started out at Collingwood, Ontario. A location at Bute Inlet (now called Waddington Harbour) would have been the terminus, with connections to Victoria and the Orient. Provenance: C.C. Mackenzie (name on front wrapper and head of preface) MacKenzie was British Columbia's Superintendent of Education in the 1880s. Lowther 318, Peel 3: 489. Condition: Wrappers soiled; uneven toning, ownership marks, notes in pen and pencil in margins sometimes extending into text on few pages; very good. Item#: 365372 Headline: Overland through British North America 1868
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